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Author Guidelines

 

The Author Guidelines of “Al-Qudwah: Jurnal Studi Al-Qur’an dan Hadis” use this list to carry out a final check of your submission before you send it to the journal for review. Please check the relevant section in this Guide for Authors in Publication Ethics for more details. Publishing your paper with Al-Qudwah: Jurnal Studi Al-Qur’an dan Hadis means that the author or authors retain the copyright in the paper. Manuscripts written in Indonesian and/or English are typed using the MS Word processing program, Gill Sans MT font type, 1,15-spaced, A4 paper (210 x 297 mm). Manuscript frame size: left 3.0 cm, right 2.5 cm, top 2.5 cm, bottom 2.5 cm.

Al-Qudwah: Jurnal Studi Al-Qur’an dan Hadis uses license CC-BY-SA as the optimal license which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided that the Contribution is properly cited, the use is non-commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made. Al-Qudwah: Jurnal Studi Al-Qur’an dan Hadis granted an exclusive non-commercial reuse license by the author(s), but the author(s) are able to put the paper onto a website, distribute it to colleagues, give it to students, use it in your thesis, etc, so long as the use is not directed at a commercial advantage or toward private monetary gain and no modifications or adaptations are made. See Copyright Notice for further information.

Submission Checklist

Please:

  1. Read the Focus and Scope to gain an overview and assess if your manuscript is suitable for this journal;
  2. Use the Microsoft Word template to prepare your manuscript;
  3. Make sure that issues about publication ethics, copyright, authorship, figure formats, data, and references format have been appropriately considered;
  4. Ensure that all authors have approved the content of the submitted manuscript.
  5. Authors are encouraged to add a brief biography (optional) to the submission and publish it.

Manuscript Submission Overview

Types of Publications

Al-Qudwah: Jurnal Studi Al-Qur’an dan Hadis has restrictions on the length of manuscripts (6.000–7.000 words), provided that the text is concise and comprehensive. Full experimental details must be provided so that the results can be reproduced. Al-Qudwah: Jurnal Studi Al-Qur’an dan Hadis requires that authors publish all experimental controls and make full datasets available where possible (see the guidelines on Supplementary Materials and references to unpublished data).

Al-Qudwah: Jurnal Studi Al-Qur’an dan Hadis just publishes original articles. We do not accept other types of manuscripts, such as Book Review, Review Essays, etc. The journal considers all original articles provided that the work reports scholarly sound analyses, provides a substantial amount of new insights and emphasizes the study of al-Qur’an and Hadis (see Focus and Scope). The journal considers all original articles provided that the work reports scientifically sound experiments and provides a substantial amount of new information. Authors should not unnecessarily divide their work into several related manuscripts, although short Communications of preliminary, but significant results will be considered. The quality and impact of the study will be considered during peer review. Manuscripts submitted to Al-Qudwah: Jurnal Studi Al-Qur’an dan Hadis should neither be published previously nor be under consideration for publication in another journal.

Submission Process

Manuscripts for Al-Qudwah: Jurnal Studi Al-Qur’an dan Hadis should be submitted online through an open journal system. The submitting author, who is generally the corresponding author, is responsible for the manuscript during the submission and peer-review process. The submitting author must ensure that all eligible co-authors have been included in the author list (read the criteria to qualify for authorship) and that they have all read and approved the submitted version of the manuscript. To submit your manuscript, register and log in to the submission website. Once you have registered, click here to go to the submission form for Al-Qudwah: Jurnal Studi Al-Qur’an dan Hadis. The Corresponding author can see the manuscript details in the submission system using the e-mail address provided during manuscript submission.

Accepted File Formats

Authors must use the Microsoft Word template to prepare their manuscript. Using the template file will substantially shorten the time to complete copy-editing and publication of accepted manuscripts. If this is a problem, please contact the Editorial Office at jurnal.alqudwah@uin-suska.ac.id. Accepted file formats are:

  • Microsoft Word: Manuscripts prepared in Microsoft Word must be converted into a single file before submission. When preparing manuscripts in Microsoft Word, the Al-Qudwah: Jurnal Studi Al-Qur’an dan Hadis Microsoft Word template file must be used. Please insert your graphics (schemes, figures, etc.) in the main text after the paragraph of its first citation. All text and metadata identifying the authors should be removed before submission.
  • Supplementary files: May be any format, but it is recommended that you use common, non-proprietary formats where possible (see supplementary files below for further details).

Disclaimer: Usage of these templates is exclusively intended for submission to the journal for peer-review, and strictly limited to this purpose and it cannot be used for posting online on preprint servers or other websites.

Format Submission

Al-Qudwah: Jurnal Studi Al-Qur’an dan Hadis accepts all manuscripts free-format submission:

  • We do not have strict formatting requirements, but all manuscripts must contain the required sections: Author Information, Abstract, Keywords, Introduction, Materials & Methods, Discussions, Conclusions, Figures and Tables with Captions, Author Contributions, Conflict of Interest, and other Ethics Statements. Check the Publication Ethics for Authors for more details.
  • Your references must be in Chicago Manual of Style 17th edition – full note using the references tool (Zotero or Mendeley) to make consistent formatting throughout. It is essential to include author(s) name(s), journal or book title, article or chapter title (where required), year of publication, volume and issue (where appropriate) and pagination. DOI numbers (Digital Object Identifier) are not mandatory but highly encouraged. The bibliography software package Zotero or Mendeley is recommended.

Cover Letter

A cover letter must be included with each manuscript submission. It should contain the full author names and affiliations, and title; you may append the complete version of your manuscript to the cover letter. It should also be concise and explain why the content of the paper is significant, placing the findings in the context of existing work and why it fits the scope of the journal. Confirm that neither the manuscript nor any parts of its content are currently under consideration or published in another journal. Please check the cover letter format.

Manuscript Preparation

General Considerations

  • Research manuscripts should comprise:
    • Front matter: Title, Author list, Affiliations, Abstract, Keywords
    • Research manuscript sections: Introduction, Discussion, Materials, Conclusions.
    • Back matter: Supplementary Materials, Acknowledgments (optional), Author Contributions, Conflicts of Interest, References.
  • Acronyms/Abbreviations/Initialisms should be defined the first time they appear in each of three sections: the abstract; the main text; the first figure or table. When defined for the first time, the acronym/abbreviation/initialism should be added in parentheses after the written-out form.
  • Transliteration: The transliteration Arabic system must be used consistently throughout, except for quotations using a symbol. Please check our transliteration system.
  • Guidelines and standards: Al-Qudwah: Jurnal Studi Al-Qur’an dan Hadis follows standards and guidelines for certain types of research. See Technical Author Guidelines for further information.

Front Matter

These sections should appear in the manuscript

  • Title: The title of your manuscript should be concise, specific, and relevant. It should be on the top of the first page with the align to the left.
  • Author List and Affiliations: Authors' full first and last names must be provided. The initials of any middle name can be added. At least one author should be designated as the corresponding author, and his or her email address and other details should be included at the end of the affiliation section. Please read the criteria to qualify for authorship.
  • Abstract: The abstract should be a total of about 200 to 250 words maximum. The abstract should be a single paragraph and should follow the style of structured abstracts, but without headings: 1) Background: Place the question addressed in a broad context and highlight the purpose of the study; 2) Methods: Describe briefly the main methods or treatments applied. 3) Results: Summarize the article's main findings; and 4) Conclusion: Indicate the main conclusions or interpretations and novelty. The abstract should be an objective representation of the article: it must not contain results that are not presented and substantiated in the main text and should not exaggerate the main conclusions.
  • Keywords: Three to five pertinent keywords need to be added after the abstract. We recommend that the keywords are specific to the article, yet reasonably common within the subject discipline.

Research Manuscript Sections

  • Introduction: The introduction should briefly place the study in a broad context and highlight why it is important. It should define the purpose of the work and its significance, including specific hypotheses being tested. The current state of the research field should be reviewed carefully and key publications cited. Please highlight controversial and diverging hypotheses when necessary. Finally, briefly mention the main aim of the work and highlight the main conclusions. Keep the introduction comprehensible to scientists working outside the topic of the paper. The introduction also should be described with sufficient detail to allow others to replicate and build on published results. New methods and protocols should be described in detail while well-established methods can be briefly described and appropriately cited.
  • Discussions: Provide a concise and precise description of the experimental results, their interpretation as well as the experimental conclusions that can be drawn. Authors should discuss the results and how they can be interpreted from the perspective of previous studies and of the working hypotheses. The findings and their implications should be discussed in the broadest context possible and the limitations of the work highlighted. Future research directions may also be mentioned.
  • Conclusions: The conclusion contains the answers to the research questions or problem statements. The article's contribution to knowledge, research limitations, and suggestions for future research have not been mentioned. It should be written in narrative form, not in numerical/numbering/point form.

Back Matter

  • Supplementary Materials: Describe any supplementary material published online alongside the manuscript (figure, tables, video, spreadsheets, etc.). Please indicate the name and title of each element as follows Figure S1: title, Table S1: title, etc. or follow suplementary guideline to further informations.
  • Acknowledgments (optional): In this section you can acknowledge any support given which is not covered by the author contribution or funding sections. This may include administrative and technical support, or donations in kind (e.g., materials used for experiments).
  • Author Contributions: Each author is expected to have made substantial contributions to the conception or design of the work; or the acquisition, analysis, or interpretation of data; or the creation of new software used in the work; or have drafted the work or substantively revised it; AND has approved the submitted version (and version substantially edited by journal staff that involves the author’s contribution to the study); AND agrees to be personally accountable for the author’s own contributions and for ensuring that questions related to the accuracy or integrity of any part of the work, even ones in which the author was not personally involved, are appropriately investigated, resolved, and documented in the literature.
    For research articles with several authors, a short paragraph specifying their individual contributions must be provided. The following statements should be used "Conceptualization, X.X. and Y.Y.; Methodology, X.X.; Software, X.X.; Validation, X.X., Y.Y. and Z.Z.; Formal Analysis, X.X.; Investigation, X.X.; Resources, X.X.; Data Curation, X.X.; Writing – Original Draft Preparation, X.X.; Writing – Review & Editing, X.X.; Visualization, X.X.; Supervision, X.X.; Project Administration, X.X.; Funding Acquisition, Y.Y.”. For more background on CRediT, see here. "Authorship must include and be limited to those who have contributed substantially to the work. Please read the section concerning the criteria to qualify for authorship carefully".
  • Data Availability Statement (optional): In this section, please provide details regarding where data supporting reported results can be found, including links to publicly archived datasets analyzed or generated during the study.
  • Conflicts of Interest: Authors must identify and declare any personal circumstances or interest that may be perceived as influencing the representation or interpretation of reported research results. If there is no conflict of interest, please state "The authors declare no conflict of interest." Any role of the funding sponsors in the design of the study; in the collection, analyses or interpretation of data; in the writing of the manuscript, or in the decision to publish the results must be declared in this section. If there is no role, please state “The founding sponsors had no role in the design of the study; in the collection, analyses, or interpretation of data; in the writing of the manuscript, and in the decision to publish the results”. For more details please see Conflict of Interest.
  • Important note: If you have any concerns that the provision of this information may compromise your anonymity dependent on the peer review policy of this journal outlined above, you can withhold this information until you submit your final accepted manuscript.
  • References: A reference list is always arranged alphabetically. All sources are listed by the last names of the authors and listed individually at the end of the manuscript. We recommend preparing the references with a bibliography software package, such as Zotero or Mendeley to avoid typing mistakes and duplicated references. Your references must be in Chicago Manual of Style 17th edition – full note. Citations and References in Supplementary files are permitted provided that they also appear in the main text and in the reference list. The Reference list should include the full title as recommended by the Chicago Manual of Style 17th edition – full note style guide.

Preparing Figures, Schemes, and Tables

  • All Figures, Schemes and Tables should be inserted into the main text close to their first citation and must be numbered following their number of appearance (Figure 1, Scheme I, Figure 2, Scheme II, Table 1, etc.).
    All Figures, Schemes and Tables should have a short explanatory title and caption.
  • File for Figures and Schemes must be provided during submission in a single zip archive and at a sufficiently high resolution (minimum 1000 pixels width/height, or a resolution of 300 dpi or higher).
  • Common formats are accepted, however, TIFF, JPEG, EPS and PDF are preferred.
  • All table columns should have an explanatory heading. To facilitate the copy-editing of larger tables, smaller fonts may be used, but no less than 8 pt. in size. Authors should use the Table option of Microsoft Word to create tables.
  • Common figures and schemes formats are accepted, however, figures and schemes in color (RGB at 8-bit per channel) are preferred. There is no additional cost for publishing full color graphics.

Supplementary Materials and Data Deposit

Al-Qudwah: Jurnal Studi Al-Qur’an dan Hadis Research Data Policies

Al-Qudwah: Jurnal Studi Al-Qur’an dan Hadis is committed to supporting open scientific exchange and enabling our authors to achieve best practices in sharing and archiving research data. We encourage all authors of articles published in Al-Qudwah: Jurnal Studi Al-Qur’an dan Hadis to share their research data. Individual journal guidelines can be found at the Author Guideline and technically at the Technical Author Guideline page. Data sharing policies concern the minimal dataset that supports the central findings of a published study. Generated data should be publicly available and cited in accordance with journal guidelines.

Al-Qudwah: Jurnal Studi Al-Qur’an dan Hadis data policies are base on TOP Guidelines which explained citation standards, data transparency, analytic methods (Code) transparency, research materials transparency, design and analysis transparency, study preregistration, analysis plan preregistration, and replication policies. See TOP Guidelines to further information.

Where ethical, legal or privacy issues are present, data should not be shared. The authors should make any limitations clear in the Data Availability Statement upon the article (see backmatter instructions). Authors should ensure that data shared are in accordance with the consent provided by participants on the use of confidential data.

Although Data Availability Statements suggests showing the data used by inclusion of a link to publicly archived datasets analyzed or generated during the study, Al-Qudwah: Jurnal Studi Al-Qur’an dan Hadis suffices to prove the existence of the data generated during the study by reference without requiring the inclusion of a link.

Below are suggested Data Availability Statements:

  • If data is available in a publicly accessible CrossReff repository

The data presented in this study are openly available at [doi].

  • If data is available in a publicly accessible repository that does not issue DOIs

Publicly available datasets were analyzed in this study. This data can be found here: [link].

  • If data is available on request due to restrictions eg privacy or ethical

The data presented in this study are available on request from the corresponding author. The data are not publicly available due to [insert reason here]

  • If data is 3rd Party

Restrictions apply to the availability of these data. Data were obtained from [third party] and are available [from the authors] with the permission of [third party].

  • If data sharing is not applicable

No new data were created or analyzed in this study. Data sharing is not applicable to this article.

  • Data is contained within the article or supplementary material

The data presented in this study are available in [insert article or supplementary material here] (Usually the datasets were analyzed from library research can be found in the whole data references ).

Data citation:

Please follow the Chicago Manual of Style 17th edition – full note for further information.

Supplementary Material

Additional data and files can be uploaded as "Supplementary Files" during the manuscript submission process. The supplementary files will also be available to the referees as part of the peer-review process. Any file format is acceptable, however we recommend that common, non-proprietary formats are used where possible.

Unpublished Data

Restrictions on data availability should be noted during submission and in the manuscript. "Data not shown" should be avoided: authors are encouraged to publish all observations related to the submitted manuscript as Supplementary Material. "Unpublished data" intended for publication in a manuscript that is either planned, "in preparation" or "submitted" but not yet accepted, should be cited in the text and a reference should be added in the References section. "Personal Communication" should also be cited in the text and reference added in the References section. (see also the reference list and Chicago Manual of Style 17th edition – full note style guide.

References in Supplementary Files

Citations and References in Supplementary files are permitted provided that they also appear in the reference list of the main text.

 

Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.

  1. Read the Focus and Scope to gain an overview and assess if your manuscript is suitable for this journal;
  2. Use the Microsoft Word template to prepare your manuscript;
  3. Make sure that issues about publication ethics, copyright, authorship, figure formats, data, and references format have been appropriately considered;
  4. Ensure that all authors have approved the content of the submitted manuscript.
  5. Authors are encouraged to add a brief biography (optional) to the submission and publish it.
 

Copyright Notice

An author who publishes in Al-Qudwah agrees to the following terms:

  1. The author retains the copyright and grants the journal the right of first publication of the work simultaneously licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgment of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.
  2. The author is able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book) with the acknowledgment of its initial publication in this journal.
  3. The author is permitted and encouraged to post his/her work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of the published work (See The Effect of Open Access).

Read more about the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 License here: Creative Commons — Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International — CC BY-SA 4.0

 

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